The Internet Revolution: The Not-for-dummies Guide to the History, Technology, And Use of the Internet - Brossura

Okin, J. R.

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0976385759 ISBN 13: 9780976385752

Casa editrice: Ironbound Pr, 2005

Riassunto

SUPERANNO Presents the complete history of the Internet, from its original design and engineering as the world's first packet-switched computer network (the ARPANET) to the transformation into a privatized, commercial network, and its emergence as today's international networking infrastructure. Includes a detailed explanation of how the Internet's technology works, why it works so well, how it is being used, and how it is managed. Simultaneous.

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L'autore

J. R. Okin is a technology consultant who specializes in systems engineering. His clients have included AT&T Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies, Unix International, and the Open Software Foundation. During the dot com boom, Mr. Okin worked as the Director of Software Engineering and Development at a small Internet startup in New York City. He received a bachelor's degree from Vassar College and a master's degree from Cambridge University, both in English Literature.

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Who built the Internet? Who controls it, maintains it, makes decisions about what it can and cannot do and what types of information it may and may not carry? What does the Internet consist of and how does it work? This book answers these and many other questions about the Internet, its history, and its use.It's difficult to avoid some reference to the Internet, no matter how hard we may try. It comes up in conversations with friends and family and in meetings at work. We hear about the Internet on radio and television programs as broadcasters awkwardly spell out their Internet site addresses. We see the Internet's effect on commerce everywhere we look, in its role as an entirely new and powerful medium for the distribution of all forms of advertising.This change didn't happen overnight. But it definitely feels like it did. It took less than ten years after the Internet was privatized and opened up to commercial traffic in the early 1990s for it to become - quietly and unobstrusively - an integral component of our home life, our jobs, and the world's communication infrastructures, economies, and cultures. In the course of a few, frenetic years, the Internet has grown into an inexorable force that businesses, non-commercial organizations, governments, scientific and academic institutions, and individuals throughout the industrialized world have not only accepted but embraced.Everywhere we look, we see more and more references to the Internet. That's because it is becoming part and parcel of everything we do. The Internet is changing how we raise and educate our children, how we stay connected with our families and friends, how, when, and where we perform our jobs, how we purchase our goods, how we read the weather forecast or our horoscope or send a birthday card. These changes in our behavior are fundamental and permanent, and they are becoming more pervasive with each passing year. Consequently, the Internet is changing us, our communities, our societies, and, as you will understand after reading this book, the very interconnectedness of our world.

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• Editore: Ironbound Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0976385759
• ISBN 13: 9780976385752
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 382